BMW ‘blocks ambulance from getting patient to hospital’ over right of way row
A BMW appeared to block an ambulance trying to take a patient to hospital because the driver was locked in a stand-off with a Tesco delivery van over who had the right of way. Businessman Neil Waugh had been down Tongdean Lane in Brighton, East Sussex when a Tesco delivery van approached from the opposite direction. Both drivers refused to reverse to let the other pass, and were arguing in the road when a paramedic car and ambulance came up behind the BMW under a railway bridge. Despite pleas to Mr Waugh to move his car and let the ambulance pass, the businessman refuses to do so, and denies blocking its path. ‘You are obstructing a patient getting to hospital,’ one paramedic tells Mr Waugh. ‘I am not,’ My Waugh replies. He adds, gesturing to another driver: The paramedics quickly lose patience with Mr Waugh. One of them tells him ‘get in the car and move’ before the other adds: ‘move, you fool.’ Mr Waugh has filed a formal complaint to South Ea